We have the results of Theme Madness Round 2 in this post, and there are some real upsets here. In fact, this brings us the veritable Sweet 16 theme shops in our competition. We’ll start Round 3 tomorrow, and take one step closer to having our Theme Madness 2011 winner.

Who’s excited? The results are just after the jump.

How we scored the games

Just to recap, each game was run on three fronts. First, we counted up the polls for each game. Secondly, we counted up votes on Twitter. Finally, we counted up comments generated (if they were) on the competitor’s blogs. Top score won.

Results of WooThemes vs. AppThemes

After totaling up poll votes, Twitter votes, and comments on their respective blogs, the numbers are:

Results of Standard Theme vs. ThemeFuse

What do you think of the results so far?

We’re beginning to see results show up on the big Theme Madness Bracket. How do you think the results are shaking out? Are you surprised by any of the results so far? How are your own personal brackets going?

Updated Theme Madness Schedule

Bracket A

Bracket B

Bracket C

Bracket D

April 26

AppThemes vs. Graph Paper Press

Elegant Theme vs. iThemes

ThemeForest vs. ThemeGarden

Mojo Themes vs. WPZoom

StudioPress vs. Theme Hybrid

Catalyst Theme vs. DIYThemes

Obox Themes vs. Pro Theme Design

Press75 vs. ThemeFuse

May 2

To be determined

To be determined

To be determined

To be determined

May 4

To be determined

To be determined

To be determined

To be determined

12 thoughts on “Winners: Results of Theme Madness Round 2”

OH SNAP!! lol I’d say Woo would have done a lot better if a post on the blog and Twitter/Facebook etc would have happened. I found this page today because Appthemes had a blog post on their site reminding people to come vote.

I feel that promoting this contest on WooThemes Twitter account would have been a bit like “cheating”, as then it would have been a contest of who has the most Twitter followers. That’s why we didn’t tweet about it, an most likely the reason we lost

I applaud your sportsmanship, integrity and good-natured approach. If voting were based on things like theme quality, variety, usability, etc — I’m sure Woo would still be in the mix. That bracket would look a lot different.

Well, thats kind of the point… the person with the most votes wins, more customers, more coolness and awesome themes etc equals more followers. Not posting about this contest anywhere (that I saw) just shut out those that would have voted for you otherwise. Seeing you guys out of the contest already really throws off my picks :p

Agreed… But since this contest uses the “Selection” format to determine the winner (same as Academy Awards, presidential elections, or anything based on polls/voting), calling it a “Tournament” (which is a different format and is based on different methods) can cause some confusion. There’s nothing wrong with either format. I think it just comes down to a naming thing. But hey – it’s the first one! Not bad for an inaugural contest.